Treize copropriétaires votent.

Roughly: trehz koh-proh-pree-ay-TEHR voht.

IPA: /tʁɛz kɔpʁɔpʁijetɛʁ vɔt/

A few helpful points:

• treize ends with a pronounced z sound.
• copropriétaires has four main parts: co-pro-prié-taires.
• votent is pronounced exactly like vote here; the final -ent is silent.

Because French cardinal numbers usually do not take a plural ending. They stay the same form before a noun:

• treize copropriétaires
• treize étudiants
• treize voitures

So treize does not change.

In French, a cardinal number usually goes directly before the noun, without un/des/les:

• treize copropriétaires = thirteen co-owners

If you say les treize copropriétaires, that means the thirteen co-owners, referring to a specific group already known in context.

Because the sentence is talking about thirteen people, so the noun must be plural.

• singular: copropriétaire
• plural: copropriétaires

The written plural ending is -s, although that s is not pronounced here.

Copropriétaire means co-owner or joint owner.

Depending on context, it can refer to:

• someone who owns property together with others
• in a building context, a unit owner / condo owner / apartment co-owner

So it is a more specific word than just propriétaire (owner).

Usually, copropriétaire has the same form for both masculine and feminine.

For example:

• un copropriétaire = a male co-owner
• une copropriétaire = a female co-owner

In the plural, the spelling is also the same:

• des copropriétaires

So the article or context tells you the gender, not the noun ending.

Because votent is the third-person plural present form of voter (to vote).

With most -er verbs in French, the -ent ending in ils/elles forms is silent:

• il vote
• ils votent

Both are pronounced /vɔt/.

This is very common in French spelling: the verb ending shows grammar in writing, even when it is not heard clearly in speech.

It is the present tense (more precisely, the present indicative).

So votent can mean:

• vote
• are voting
• sometimes do vote, depending on context

French often uses the present where English might choose either the simple present or the present continuous.

Yes. This is standard subject + verb order:

• Treize copropriétaires = subject
• votent = verb

So the structure is very similar to English:

• Thirteen co-owners vote.

Yes. Using digits is perfectly possible:

• 13 copropriétaires votent.

In many everyday texts, digits are common. In more careful or formal prose, small numbers are often written out as words, so Treize may be preferred. Both are correct.

No important liaison is made here.

• treize already ends in a pronounced z, so there is no special liaison effect before copropriétaires
• between copropriétaires and votent, French normally does not make a liaison in this kind of noun + verb sequence

So you can say the words separately and clearly: treize | copropriétaires | votent